say hi to apples!

Girls are like apples. The best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them,when,in reality,they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
-Pete Wentz

photoshoot!

I was lucky enough to illustrate over these beautiful photos for a spread in XO magazine's winter issue. The photos are by Jesse Ashton, the styling and hair were done by my lovely friends: Beatrice de Jong and Dalina Rebollo(hair) and Sharice Massehians(styling) and the make-up by Noel Nichols.

GENERIC YOUTH

I'm making my photographic and styling debut in Nylon Japan this month. I had such a fun time doing this photoshoot. Who knew I had such a bossy side? Maria and Alanna were especially helpful in setting up and helping choose outfits! I also have to thank Scott and Jeff for their warm hospitality!

I met the Generic Youth team back in May at the Costa Mesa store. The designer, Jeff Yokoyama, is an apparel legend. He started Maui and Son in 1980 to great success and went on to create several more brands, along the way consulting for the likes of other action sports giants such as Quilksilver, Stussy. To say he is a hard-working man is an understatement and yet in person he is humble and very kind. His latest creative endeavor, Generic Youth, is a very hands-on brand which uses a lot of recycled fabrics and has a very special homegrown, handmade feel. I especially fell in love with the hoodies made out of used beach towels. They actually have an event every Wednesday at which you trade old beach towels for burgers. Its the kind of genuine neighborhood touch that is very hard to find in most brands. I wish Generic Youth the best of luck...not that they need any.

FRIEDIA SHOW!

Hello everybody! I can't believe it's already the middle of July that means 2010 is more than half over. Are you checking off those New Year's resolutions? :-) I find this mid-point exciting; it fires me up knowing I don't have much time left til 2011. Each day is so important!

Anyways, enough with the small talk: I'm writing because the wonderful, adorable, multi-talented Friedia interviewed me for her webshow, eponymously named, Friedia Show! It was so much fun filming this and it turned out so great(much thanks to director, Sunny)! What more could I ask for? It's a perfect time capsule that I can show to my grandkids one day to prove that I too was once young(hehehe). :-)

strawberry switchblade=LOVE!

ASHISH=MY BIRTHDAY OUTFIT....I WISH....:-(

ASHISH IS AWESOME....THE GIRL IS FROM THE SIX SIX SICK BLOG. I IMAGINE IT WOULD BE A LOT OF PRESSURE TO WEAR THIS.

cut it out!

Talk about putting a smile on my face. Awesome girl, Michelle, sent me this pic where she actually cut out the paperdoll drawing I did for the M.I.S.S. show and arranged it in a frame. I love the way she put it together with the little doll on the frame and all...I mean I drew it as a paperdoll but I never thought to actually try it out. Surprisingly the clothes mostly fit....the bodysuit is a little short(but pretty good for just eye-balling it!) :-) Anyways, loving this creativity!! Oh and Michelle has a blog! Go check it out!

estonian girl~!

the mishmash of influences just keeps getting more and more hybrid:
love the victorian/goth-loli/scene/bjork/pop vibe....uber cute. :-)
at certain points she sounds like pink...which makes sense since they're both signed by l.a. reid(maybe same writers??).

three years before...

i moved to japan....


i love miwa!!!!!!!! hontoni daisuki yo! cho maimuki de iiyo. :-) love, love, love you~!

キスミント。

このシンブルさがいいよね。

大人キュート。

いつまでもかわいいチャラ。

lara stone+chanel=amazing!

Sayo Nagase

I love these "what's in your bag?" type photo essays...You can ask people probing questions and find out less about them....I especially like how they devoted two pages to this.

side by side.

(Minzy in Jeremy Scott leggings and CL in Betsey Johnson Opening Ceremony Archive skirt)


I love that 2ne1's stylists have been putting the girls in Jeremy Scott since they first debuted.....I love Jeremy Scott's jersey piececs and prints but I have to say Betsey Johnson did those cuts about twenty years before him. Just sayin', I mean I love them both! They both make clothes for, as cliche as this sounds, girls that wanna have fun or look fun....:-)

devon 4eva!

I've been a devon fan since highschool(middle school??) anyways, a long time....Lately, she dosen't show up as much as she used to but I was really excited when my friend, Mandy, posted these images on her site. Apparently, they're from the new Tokyo Numero. Love the Frenchy, stepford wife by way of Hong Kong ennui love hotel look~!

filippa berg!

(Wren, Spring 2009)

Filippa Berg is beyond adorable. I love her sleepy, romantic look. It's no wonder she is a muse for so many designers....

say hi to daul is so cute!

friends of a feather.

I wish the sartorialist would take more shots like this of girls like them....and one day I'm going to figure out how to get my eyeliner like that!

dropsnap

tavi

So there's this blog I follow, style rookie.
The blogger is, Tavi, who is thirteen going on twenty seven and writes highly witty blogs about high fashion and what not. Through the combination of her precociousness and her serious attitude towards fashion she has become somewhat of an internet wunderkind. Editors send her designer pieces and in a recent post she visited the Rodarte sisters in L.A.. I mean how cool is this kid? It kind of blows my mind. Anyways, she gave Laura and Kate Mulleavy a zine she made and here's where it connects to me, she collaged some of the girls I drew for the May issue of Nylon!! How rad! I am in a very remote way connected to Tavi and the Rodarte sisters through this. Such an awesome feeling to be collaged by a cool kid like Tavi. :-)